SQL Compare®
Latest version: 8.1
Compares and synchronizes SQL Server database schemas
- Automate database comparisons
- Synchronize your databases
- Work with SQL scripts, snapshots, backups or live databases
- Compare and synchronize both schemas and data, moving seamlessly from SQL Compare to SQL Data Compare
- Full support for SQL Server 2008
"SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare are the best purchases we've made in the .NET/SQL environment. They've saved us hours of development time and the fast, easy-to-use database comparison gives us maximum confidence that our migration scripts are correct. We rely on these products for every deployment."
SQL Compare is the industry-standard tool for comparing and synchronizing SQL Server database schemas. It's used by over 200,000 developers, DBAs and test engineers worldwide because it's easy to use, it's fast, and it saves time.
Whether you are working with live databases, database snapshots, object SQL scripts under source control or an earlier backup, SQL Compare will help you compare and synchronize database changes quickly, simply and with zero errors.
Read the whitepaper on database development and discover how SQL Compare can save you astonishing amounts of time, whatever development model your team prefers to use. SQL Compare ensures accurate, fast results with maximum end-user flexibility.
Walk-throughs
View our short screen-by-screen introductory walk-throughs
Demo videos
Step-by-step demos of SQL Compare in action
Pro Edition $595
For simpler automation, versioning and source control integration:
- Compare and synch with a set of script files.
- Object Level Restore from a backup file.
- Includes SQL Changeset for integrated checkin/edit/checkout.
- Accesses command-line interface.
Standard Edition $395
Compares and synchronizes SQL Server database schemas.
We have numerous customer testimonials detailing just how much time you can save. We also provide stepped solutions for the kinds of problem which you, as a DBA or database developer, may be faced with right now.
Some of the procedures SQL Compare will automate for you:
- Comparing two databases or a database with SQL scripts
- Generating synchronization scripts
- Taking database snapshots and comparing them – useful for audit trails
- Comparing with a previous backup, ideal for database versioning
- Executing "right-first-time" database synchronizations
For comparing and synchronizing database contents, check out SQL Compare's companion product, SQL Data Compare.
Using both tools you can keep databases in source control and bring them under continuous integration. Read this whitepaper to learn how.
